Taking you undercover into the world of gaming

Well hello, I’m Julia, one of the Ginx presenters (*cough* watch GameFace Saturdays at 11pm on Challenge TV *cough*) and this is the first of many random blogs I’ll be writing the Ginx TV website. So, welcome! As with most new things, I’ve spent half the time I should have been doing this worrying about doing it and finding things to clean instead. In fact deadlines are perhaps the only time I ever clean my place. So this little corner of the internet shall be about my life as the First Lady of Ginx (I just made that up. Nobody calls me that. Not even ‘lady’. Well, maybe in an ironic way).

This week, well actually ever since January, has been a bit mad really. Ginx TV is all gearing up to launch and project itself upon the unsuspecting British public, so Ginx Towers has been in a state of organised chaos. Which makes a change from regular, boring, normal chaos. As of January I’m also the official the games gal for Metal Hammer magazine, which is great as it combines my two of my favourite things. Metal and gaming.

I got to interview N-Dubz the other week, as they have released a video made entirely on LittleBigPlanet 2 – which is a pretty cool thing to do. Anything that brings gaming to the mainstream is all good in my books. It’s funny, most people don’t call themselves gamers, and yet, most people play games. Which is a weird thing, it’s like a stigma. Which is one of the things I’m really happy to be part of in the Ginx TV MO, making gaming for all, whilst obviously not ignoring the hardcore gamers who’ve kept the torch going all these years.

I also had my birthday shindig and chose the only appropriate place to have it, The Trocadero! Yes, because I’m that mental. It’s actually the best place to go out in central London, as the bars are pretty empty and you’re surrounded by video games = win!!

I’ve been having lots of fun and interesting conversations with our new golden boy Will, who we stole from MTV (kidnapped might be more appropriate as we secretly all wanted to drive around in an A-Team style van and shout with balaclavas). We’ve been talking new shows for me which I can’t really go into too much detail about at the moment, but it’s all super exciting and I can’t wait.

I’m really looking forward to seeing the new channel up and running. So much work has gone into shaping it to be the best we can produce and it can only get better and better as time goes by. I feel proud to be part of a team who are so passionate, so fun to hang out with and who love to game. It’s like a dream job!

I think that’s enough waffle from me, for now. Until next time….
 

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